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I don’t know! I have a diabetic dog so don’t need any more diabetic animals...........

I know I'm commenting on an old post here but my chickens and geese adore morning glorry flower heads when they drop off. They seek them out. I didnt know they were toxic so I'm glad to hear they're probably not! They are all over my land and wrapped round all my roses etc. They are a pest really.

My 2 are eating very well but mostly lettuce and cucumber still. There's no grass here in the summer, and broccolli not very often in the shops, so they are getting their favourite watermelon a lot. They had some apple and peach and liked that too. They're not keen on the dry chick food I buy...

Thanks, they already like lettuce so I will definitely give them some broccoli and peas.

Hi, I've been on BYC for a while as a chicken owner, but have now got a couple of goslings. Unfortunately I bought them off one of the gypsy vans that come round here in greece, and they weren't well raised to say the least and were a right scruffy poorly little pair. I don't know how old they...

I had one lot last year when only 1 out of 12 eggs hatched alive! Then a fox got that 1. Nightmare. One of these I helped is great now but the other is not good and it seems to have a weak leg, so I guess you’re right, maybe it should have been left be.

Here they are.

Well I helped them both out the eggs. Not sure if it is the right thing to do or not, but one is super fit and eating and drinking and the other is a bit smaller and a bit more wonky on its legs but it may strengthen up. :D:D

Thanks Chicknanny. That’s a great idea. Ive been filling hot water bottles all day!

Don’t have heat lamp but have them in insulated box with warm hot water bottle 2 still alive.

Thanks. At least 1 was still peeping this morning but don’t really hold out much hope.

She was still pretty much sitting yesterday. The last chick hatched overnight, but she’s had enough now and the chicks are whizzing about so she’s preoccupied. Just wondered if there was any way to help them out. I’m trying to borrow an incubator.

My broody hen has hatched 6 of 10 eggs and now has chicks running about so has left the nest. There are 4 remaining eggs and I float tested them and at least 2 of them wiggled so are potentially viable. What shall I do? She doesn't seem interested in sitting any more. Its really warm here...

I live in Greece and everyone has chickens in their backyards here. I was told by an old guy to raise my small chicks on a mixture of chick feed and broken rice which they sell here. I have been and they seem to be growing well.

Thanks for the comprehensive reply! The eggs were given to me by a friend who said they were all fresh laid, and I thought it would be good to have some fresh blood in the flock. I can't vouch for their handling before he brought them to me, and some of the eggs were broken so hadnt been...

I was given 10 fertile eggs for my broody hen to sit on 21 days ago, as I'd recently send my rooster on his way for being aggressive! She broke 1 but the others seemed ok and last night I saw one tiny head so got 1 chick. Today I expected some more and I saw one egg had been pipped so left them...

Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome. :-)

hi. I'm Pam, and I'm a Brit living in Greece. I took 2 wee chicks off a friend who'd incubated them just over a year ago. They turned out to be a hen and a cock, Donald and Hillary. They are mongrels, whatever the correct terminology is in chicken world :-) When they grew a bit and I realised...